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Cloudflare blocks largest DDoS attack - here's how to protect yourself

Zero Day

PT oxygen/Getty Cloudflare  is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against  distributed denial of service (DDoS)  attacks. Last month, Cloudflare  blocked the largest DDoS attack in internet history.    This assault peaked at a staggering 7.3

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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 5 Steps for DDoS Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. co and a VPN provider called HideIPVPN[.]com. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. com, sscompany[.]net,

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 377

Security Affairs

Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 319

Security Affairs

Are the DDoS and the fire linked?

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Cloudflare One SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare also stands out with ZTNA by default, IoT Isolation, and automated traffic controls and anti-DDoS capabilities. Small businesses with under 50 people, organizations with a small number of remote employees (manufacturing, hospitals, etc.),

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Cyber Best Practices for Overseas Asset Security

SecureWorld News

If you are already familiar with the evolving cyber threat landscape in your home country, you’ll know that humans are often the most exploited attack vector for cybercrime, and how frequently small businesses are breached. So, how exactly are these challenges exacerbated when moving your operations beyond borders?